He said there was an urgent need to establish 10,000 schools to ensure provision of education to children in every nook and corner of the province. Sardar Bareech stated that most of the schools were without basic facilities.

"There is no light at the end of the tunnel," he said, adding that the provincial government had no resources to set up such a large number of schools and recruit teachers.

He said the provincial government was resources-starved and the federal government was not ready to support and develop the education sector.

Sardar Bareech stated that currently the department was not doing much for the development of education sector, rather it was just dealing with administrative issues.

Nazar Bareech, the provincial coordinator Institute of Social and Policy Sciences also spoke at length about the declining condition of education in the province.

Balochistan is Pakistan's physically largest and least developed province.

Poverty, worsening law and order situation, financial and social barriers combined with the lackadaisical attitude of concerned quarters are major reasons contributing to the sorry state of education in Balochistan.

Earlier in November, Secretary Education Balochistan Ghullam Ali Baloch had told Dawn.com that only 1.3m out of total 3.6m children were going to schools in the province, a figure way below the numbers of other provinces.